http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57291
ncahill_alt at yahoo dot com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |ncahill_alt at yahoo dot com --- Comment #1 from ncahill_alt at yahoo dot com --- I see from the binutils changelog that .balign was added to the GNU assembler in April 1995, so 18 years ago. Your assembler must be from around that time. I suggest updating binutils to 2.23 or newer if possible. This is a good idea in general and may fix other, yet to be discovered problems. Neil Cahill.